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With chapters dedicated to texts from antiquity, the Renaissance, and the nineteenth century, and with a critical eye on architectural theory popularized in the Anglo-Saxon world post-1968, readers are introduced to a wider, more inclusive definition of architectural ideas. Building Theories considers how contemporary scholarship has steered away from the topic of building in its reluctance to admit that both design and construction are central to its concerns. In response, it argues for a realignment of architecture with the concept of techné, with a dual commitment to fabrica e ratio, with a productive return to l’art de bien bastir, with the accurate translation of the term Baukunst, and with an appeal to the architect’s ‘composite mind.’ Students, practitioners, and educators will identify in Building Theories ways of thinking that strive for the integration of design with construction; reject the supposed primacy of the former over the latter; recognize how aesthetics are an insufficient scaffold for subtending the subject of architectural ethics; and accept, without reservation, that material transformations have always been at the origins of built form.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730489385233,"sku":"NGR9781138859043","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1138859044.jpg?v=1751206226"},{"product_id":"women-re-build-book-franca-trubiano-9781943532438","title":"Women (Re)Build","description":"Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemic, Futures is exemplary in its mission to combine in one resource reflections on the renewal of feminist thought in architecture (Framing Stories), challenges to practice made possible by activism (Shaping Polemics), and portrayals of inspiring practitioners who pave the way for future women architects (Building Futures). The goal of this book is to increase the visibility and voice of women who everyday challenge the definition and practice of architecture. Women [Re]Build gathers words and projects of leading women thinkers, activists, designers, and builders who have dared to ask, \"where are the women?\" Where are the women whose architectural work should be celebrated and recognised for its courage and impact; who have cultivated female leadership while challenging the very principles of the discipline they represent; and who ve asked the most difficult and rigorous of questions of those who build their visions?  Contributors:  Franca Trubiano;  Ramona Adlakha;  Ramune Bartuskaite;  Joan Ockman;  Ila Berman;  Mary McLeod; Despina Stratigakos;  Marion Weiss;  Sadie Morgan;  Samantha Hardingham;  Lori Brown;  Julie Moskovitz;  Annelise Pitts;  Shirley Blumberg;  Nicole Dosso;  Winka Dubbeldam;  Billie Tsien;  Jeanne Gang;  Margaret Cavenagh;  Department of Architecture, Penn DESIGN.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51053766770961,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51053768835345,"sku":"NIN9781943532438","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52345822904593,"sku":"NLS9781943532438","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52815480783121,"sku":"CIN1943532435VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52940067307793,"sku":"CIN1943532435G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1943532435.jpg?v=1772706501"},{"product_id":"bio-matter-techno-synthetics-book-franca-trubiano-9781638409854","title":"Bio\/Matter\/Techno\/Synthetics","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe twenty-three papers and five editorials collected in this volume speak to subjects of bio-design, speculative biology, green walls and pavers, design by decay, soilless soil, sentient materials, photogrammetrees, robotics, nanotechnology, thermal architecture and alliesthesia, digital weaving, chemical droplets, and even Frankenstein. 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Despite the propensity of contemporary discourse to favor the search for a hegemonic theory, this collaborative project convenes the work of twenty- eight women, all of whom interrogate the origins, methods, and tactics of their respective disciplines. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Collectively, B\/M\/T\/S challenges the common place nature of ideas founded in parametricism, object- oriented ontology, parafictional realism, post-digital representations, and corporate functionalism. In exchange, it seeks the confluence of critical, aesthetic, and ethical thought in future speculations on the biological, the material, the technological, and their synthesis. It does this at scales that operate across multiple disciplines and territories. 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